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Wicked Cool Shit – a Cigar Advisor Buying Guide (December)

Reading Time: 5 minutes Former Playboy Playmate, turned entrepreneur and relationship advice columnist, Sondra Theodore, is back for a third round of relationship advice. This month Sondra takes on a cheating couple, a disabled divorcee, if good fathers are “sexy,” why some women can’t explain why they’re just not into you, and a couple who’ve been together for two decades, yet aren’t sexually attracted to each other. Curious about what she advises for these readers?

Reading Time: 4 minutes So you want to be a cigar connoisseur? Contributor Joseph A. Baker explains what it takes to go from tyro to virtuoso in his article titled, “How to Become a Cigar Cognoscente.” Baker, writing from his own personal experience, starts with a little cigar history, some points on cutting cigars, lighting cigars, and how to choose the right cigar for you. Beyond that, Baker also discusses the camaraderie that goes with being a fellow cigar smoker.

Reading Time: 4 minutes When it comes to winter weather, being prepared and having the proper tools can mean the difference between getting there and getting screwed. Automotive journalist and Cigar Advisor contributor Bob Long has scoured the SUV landscape and made 5 picks (with some bonus material) to not only handle everything Old Man Winter has to offer, but with a hearty “in yo' face” as you blast through the snow drifts. Slip behind the wheel and snow doesn't stand a chance – these SUVs will make winter your bitch.

Reading Time: 4 minutes Six time Best Selling Author Larry Winget is known as the World's Infamous Irritational Speaker, a guy who motivates with a steel-toed size 12 to the rear, because let's face it, that's what so many of us really need most. And as usual, this article certainly doesn't mince words as Larry gives us some much needed insight into his new book entitled Grow a Pair. It's about taking charge of your life and your destiny by realizing that YOU are in control and you should never compromise your principles. Get ready for a wild ride on the Winget train.

Reading Time: 9 minutes Author and CigarAdvisor.com contributor, Mark McGinty, reprises some of the characters from his book The Cigar Maker, in Part I of this month’s feature entitled, “The Slow and Graceful Death of the Tobacco Leaf.” The story begins in 1901 Cuba with Paolo Renteria, a successful tobacco grower who learns that his brother, Armando, has been murdered and their most profitable factory has been burned to the ground during a violent tobacco workers strike in Ybor City. Paolo must go to Tampa and find out what the motive was for his brother’s untimely death.

Reading Time: 3 minutes Pop culture historian, author, and smut maven, Jim Linderman, gives readers an historical “peek” at something that cigar smokers are all too familiar with-sexy women promoting cigars and other tobacco products. Has this type of marketing gone beyond the message and made “the cigar” more than just a cigar? “There are those with a particular quirky love for cigars and unclad women, but then I suppose there is a fetish for virtually everything,” writes Linderman. To see how women like fetish model Dita Von Teese, Betty Grable, and Bonnie Parker

Reading Time: 5 minutes Wicked Cool Shit – a Cigar Advisor Buying Guide (November)

Reading Time: 4 minutes “Wanted: male and female warriors willing to fight to the death in an ancient Roman game of sport. No prior experience necessary; helmets, weapons provided.” At least, that's how the ad should read…Take a day full of classes at Scuola Gladiatori Roma, the only genuine gladiator school in the world. Contributor Ben Robinson straps on his helmet and leads you through Mortal Combat 101 in the Coliseum. Win, and the glory of Rome is yours; lose, and be fed to the lions. And they're hungry as hell.

Reading Time: 5 minutes For a certain few adults (and we use that term loosely) Halloween is just a whole lot more fun. Every year our esteemed Editor at Large, Tommy Zman makes a day of it by turning the table on trick or treaters and their moms by dressing up as the cigar chomping, scotch swilling ghoul that he really is. His boorish antics have become the talk of the town every October 31^st, making him a sort of urban legend amongst the locals. Politically incorrect is an understatement, as Zman always has the last laugh – and you will too.